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LEAD MEDICAL SUPPORT ASSISTANT
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 56 days ago
About the Role
This Lead Medical Support Assistant position is in the Health Administration (MAS) service line at VA Maine Health Care System located at the Augusta, ME location.
What You'll Do
- →Total Rewards of a Allied Health Professional This is a Work Leader position.
- →The Lead MSA performs a variety of administrative functions associated with the scheduling of patient care for the clinical programs at the VA Medical Center.
- →Duties may include, but are not limited to: Provides educational sessions to train new employees in clerical process in an efficient and effective manner to ensure that clerical processes, functions and goals are understood and met.
- →Utilizes knowledge of VA policies, regulations, guidelines and process as they relate to the scheduling of patient appointments, consults, New Enrollee Appointment Request (NEAR), Electronic Wait Lists, and pre-appointment clinical requirements(i.e. labs, EKGs, x-rays) to ensure readiness for the patient visit.
- →Monitors clinic's Access to care.
- →Monitors Insurance Card Buffer (ICB) usage ensuring insurance is collected at time of appointments and captured appropriately by the incumbent and other scheduling staff.
- →Must keep abreast of rapidly changing regulations, directives, software patches, programs, and processes involved in the delivery of the healthcare benefits package.
- →Assists with the clean-up of the Encounter Action Required Report (EARR) and delinquent recall report; supports clinics regarding utilization and clinic profile management i.e. set-up of clinic grids, cancel and restore clinics.
- →Screens/receive phone calls in a courteous and timely manner, determine the nature of request and provide the information desired using privacy rules and established clinic processes.
- →Prepares correspondence and memos as needed.
- →Promotes Veteran registration for and utilization of HealtheVet (MHV).
- →Stocks basic office supplies for the executive suite.
- →Enters Veterans seeking emergent/urgent care, scheduling appointments accurately.
- →Utilizes call lists and telephones Veterans to pre-register them before their scheduled visits.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job.
- ✓Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- ✓Must be proficient in written and spoken English.
- ✓Subject to background/security investigation.
- ✓Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP).
- ✓Complete all application requirements detailed in the "Required Documents" section of this announcement.
- ✓As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1 or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓There is no substitution of education for experience at the GS-7 grade level.
Personality Fit
Job ID: fd200b1c-a7f4-407f-8aab-e568f41fd396
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